Article ID: CBB650192444

Diversifying the Deliberative Turn: Toward an Agonistic RRI (2023)

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In its “deliberative turn,” the field of science and technology studies (STS) has strongly advocated opening up decision-making processes around science and technology to more perspectives and knowledges. While the theory of democracy underpinning this is rarely explicitly addressed, the language and ideas used are often drawn from deliberative democracy. Using the case of synthetic biology and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), this paper looks at challenges of public engagement and finds parallels in long-standing critiques of deliberative democracy. The paper suggests that STS scholars explore other theories of decision-making and explores what an RRI grounded in agonistic pluralism might entail. An agonistic RRI could develop empirical research around questions of power relations in contemporary science and technology, seek to facilitate the formation of political publics around relevant issues, and frame different actors’ stances as adversarial positions on a political field rather than “equally valid” perspectives.

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Authors & Contributors
Bulpin, Kate
Calvert, Jane
Durant, Darrin
Kelty, Christopher M.
Laube, Stefan
Marris, Claire
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social Studies of Science
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Public Understanding of Science
Science as Culture
Science Communication
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Democracy
Synthetic biology; bioengineering
Expertise
Authority of science
Public understanding of science
People
Latour, Bruno
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Modern
Places
European Union
India
Australia
Germany
Japan
Netherlands
Institutions
European Commission
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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